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The plane shown attacking the freighter is an accurate model of a Focke-Wulf 200 (except for the fact that it was shown to have a bomb bay, which it didn't have), a bomber developed from a airliner.See more »

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Revealing mistakes: When Mattrac is pointing his fifty cal. machine gun out the waist gun window, we hear machine gun sounds, but the gun is not firing. The 50 cal. M2 machine gun produces a great deal of vibration when it is being fired. The gun did not vibrate one bit.See more »

Wartime heroics never seemed exploited in quite so complex a fashion as
"Passage to Marseille," directed by Michael Curtiz

Bogart, a French journalist framed for murder because of his political
views and sent to Devil's Island during World War II, escapes from his
penal hell with four other convicts and winds up on a French freighter
bound for home Hoping to rejoin the fighting Free French resistance
movement, the men, all fiercely loyal patriots, become involved in
preventing a takeover of the ship by Fascist sympathizers

This relatively simple plot line is then surrounded by a series of
extraneous plots and subplots which were related in a series of single,
double, and even triple flashbacks, making any semblance of coherency
virtually impossible

Bogart's characterization is equally vague and complicated as he
maintained an opposing balance of virtue and vice At one moment he is
the picture of idealistic moral righteousness fighting against a
callous system, and the next he debased his human nature as he brutally
machine-guns some defenseless enemies His moral platitudes do not
balance his immoral behavior, making for ambiguity and confusion...

The most important saving grace of "Passage to Marseille" is the
supporting cast headed by Bogart's "Casablanca" co-stars Claude Rains,
Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre, who all turned in strong character
portrayals

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